Torquay United Fans Forum

dannyrvtufc4life wrote:The crossbar challenge was a good idea by the club, a simple idea which is quite entertaining. We just need someone else to be on the microphone on the pitch rather than boring brummie Deano. I can't remember the name of that bloke who used to be on the mic before the game and at half time getting the crowd going and being an all round funny bloke. He was perfect, but I think some arrangements of his work (or volunteering which started being the problem) broke down.

Steve Lassiter maybe?

The crossbar challenge was a good idea by the club, a simple idea which is quite entertaining. We just need someone else to be on the microphone on the pitch rather than boring brummie Deano. I can't remember the name of that bloke who used to be on the mic before the game and at half time getting the crowd going and being an all round funny bloke. He was perfect, but I think some arrangements of his work (or volunteering which started being the problem) broke down.

As for the tickets, well, I had may own problem. I went to get my season tickets on the Oxford game because I hadn't had time beforehand because I was on holiday. I went into the corporate area to ask to collect them, when I was told I needed to go in the queue where people where getting their match tickets. This seemed ridiculous seeing as I paid for a season ticket and had to wait in a queue when people where getting their tickets, on match day? So I stayed in that queue which seemed to take forever, but finally got to the end. I asked for my season ticket, Popside in the name of Danny Harvey. I know I already paid, I paid ages ago, was my name there? Of course not. After around ten minutes of trying to find my name, the lady asked a guy there what to do. To which he replied, 'just write it out'!? Really? I could have blagged the whole thing? He or she didn't know that I'd paid for them? I had two more for my sister and mother? I would never ever lie to the club like that ever because I love TUFC and wouldn't ever dream of it. But I could have just gone away with free three season tickets.

I know the club is so much better now than it was, but we still have little things like this, which seems really silly.

northharrowgull wrote:Leave Brucie alone,why don't you. He is actually one of the highlights of this board. A bit like Richard Wilson. You have to agree with him even though you know he is a bit left field. So keep going Brucie mate.Keep telling it how it is!!!

Richard Wilson is funny, not abusive. I don't have to agree with Brucie and usually i can't, although he is of course entitled to his opinion. However, I don't take at all well to being called "retarded" by this "highlight of the board" (this was deleted by the mods). That's fine, you enjoy his comments, and that is your privilege. I think that abuse demeans the forum.

northharrowgull wrote:Leave Brucie alone,why don't you. He is actually one of the highlights of this board. A bit like Richard Wilson. You have to agree with him even though you know he is a bit left field. So keep going Brucie mate.Keep telling it how it is!!!

Do you have your head up Wivelgull's rear end too?

Leave Brucie alone,why don't you. He is actually one of the highlights of this board. A bit like Richard Wilson. You have to agree with him even though you know he is a bit left field. So keep going Brucie mate.Keep telling it how it is!!!

Slap soccer Saturday on the big screen at half time with the sound through the speaker system and Mr Stelling will provide all the entertainment.

As far as the tickets are concerned, I completely agree, can not for the life see how we as a club can not sell three tickets together. Been with friends to premier league games, where you have to buy a match ticket before entering the ground, allways, no matter how many were asked for got the tickets in a line together.

As for the matchday experience, for me, it's what you make it. Normaly in B+L by 1.30, ground for about 2.45, and off home 5.30-6pm ish, have a laugh ny friends before, depending on how bad the match was, a bit of laugh after the game, a social day out, and I am going to my best to enjoy it, no matter what.

How far out were the tickets? I mean, were they in completely different areas of the stand or were they close, but not quite right.

Matt.

Agree with the above on all points; match day and Brucies that cry-wolf.

who gives a sh*t about what happens at half time?

most of the fans that I have stood with are either

a) looking at their phones - for other HT scores or being sad and looking at social sites.

b) they have gone for a p155.

c) they have gone for a dodgy pie, hot dog, chips etc. which will result in a return to b) for something more "solid" (hopefully).

d) they have gone for a pint.

e) reading the programme and moaning about the cost of getting into the ground - particularly away fixtures!

Pretty much spot on post GITP.

I've been a voiciferous critic of the way the club operates in the past highlighting a number of failings but now I can see that it's not really that big a deal and we should cut them some slack. I viewed the club purely on a black and white basis - the club is providing a service and we as customers are paying them for it so if things go wrong then we have a right to complain and criticise. That was my view but not now.

I can now accept that we are a small club with little resources and operating with a skeleton staff who no doubt work very hard and so expecting a smooth and seamless service at all times is unfeasible. There will be frequent errors and mistakes and so long as these are rectified swiftly to the customers satisfaction when they DO occur then that's all we can ask. I recently bought a ticket online for the home game with Cheltenham to be posted out and it never arrived, I rang them and spoke to a really friendly bloke who said he'd send out another ticket. I've now got the ticket, problem solved and i'm happy.

I appreciate that a first timer visiting Plainmoor experiencing these errors may not be suitably impressed and I agree that the club need to analyse the ticketing / seat issuing systems that are in place to prevent any future mistakes or hold ups as best they can but overall, like GITP said, these little nuances make TUFC what it is.

On the subject of half time entertainment does anyone really care? REALLY? Most people nowadays are happy chatting or looking at their mobiles for scores and Russian ladies to care about what goes on out there on the pitch. At Northampton last week they had got some advice from Alan Partridge and had the idea of getting 3 random blokes to try and chip a football into the back of a Skoda. WHY?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Scrap the half time entertainment altogether and if TUFC ever had cheerleaders then i'd have to take a sick bag with me.

Jerry wrote:It's fashionable to slag off Brucie at the moment, but I think he has a fair point about the continuing lack of attention to the ticketing issues. Not exactly going to encourage much needed new fans if something as simple as ensuring they get adjacent seats is such a problem. If this happened on someone's first visit to Plainmoor, chances are they wouldn't rush back for a second visit.

I agree with your main issue, ticketing does need sorting, but I guess the club are struggling with trying to find a solution that doesn't break the bank. And yes, it doesn't look good to a newcomer if they can't get a ticket quickly that gives them a right to sit in their numbered seat. Other clubs have ticketing issues too, just look at Northampton where visiting fans get in with difficulty. That doesn't excuse it though, Mr Candy needs to get his head around this as a priority.

With regard to the first point, the problem is that if somebody like Brucie complains about absolutely everything to do with the club and only talks about this failure, that failure, even more failures, then their valid comments disappear into assumptions about this somebody being a moaning whinger without a good word to say about anything. That's how I see it. For me Torquay United have always been a mixture of good and bad, cock ups and wonderful days, that is what makes the club what it is, a flawed treasure. So what if the PA didn't work, it does usually (in a crackly way). So what if there was a bloke dressed up as Wally Whanka on the pitch, and numerous Ooompah Loompahs, so what, it was funny. Like the boy that cried wolf, eventually nobody takes a serial whinger seriously.

Brucie is right. Admittedly I don't sit in Bristow's Bench but stand among other senile delinquents on the popside. It's the pre-match 'entertainment' that I'm particularly concerned about and especially - yes, you've guessed it - the 'performances' of the incumbent Gilbert. I wrote a couple of weeks ago about meeting One Can Lasher (the original and best Gilbert) and asked him if he would return. He said he would love to but work commitments prevented it - well, blond genug.
The point of this is, apart from backing Brucie, that all pre-match 'entertainment' issues could be solved in one fell swoop if we had a 'One Can Lasher' type Gilbert. When 'One Can Lasher' was Gilbert he kept the crowd amused, interested, entertained - AND ENTHUSIASTIC FOR TUFC - before, during and after the game - not for ten minutes beforehand.
The only way to solve this problem is for 'One Can Lasher' to be offered a permanent post as Gilbert. The crowd all loved him; they don't care at all about the current bird or other offerings of 'entertainment'.

PlainmoorRoar wrote:a huge part of why this forum is so annoying is brucie

you've got the problem with your asshole again, i can hear it talking

Whereas this post contributes what exactly?

It's fashionable to slag off Brucie at the moment, but I think he has a fair point about the continuing lack of attention to the ticketing issues. Not exactly going to encourage much needed new fans if something as simple as ensuring they get adjacent seats is such a problem. If this happened on someone's first visit to Plainmoor, chances are they wouldn't rush back for a second visit.

no words, beyond retardation, but hey mods lets keep this thread going so bruice can get the attention that he craves